Friday, October 06, 2017

AI Recognition Of Concealed Faces

[The deep learning system] can identify an individual even when part of their face is obscured. The
system was able to correctly identify a person concealed by a scarf 67
percent of the time when they were photographed against a "complex"
background, which better resembles real-world conditions...

The algorithm can still identify those angles even when part of a
person's mug is obscured, by disguises including caps, scarves, and
glasses... The research has troubling implications for protestors and other
dissidents, who often work to make sure they aren't ID'd at protests and
other demonstrations by covering their faces with scarves or by wearing
sunglasses. "To be honest when I was trying to come up with this
method, I was just trying to focus on criminals," Amarjot Singh, one of
the researchers behind the paper and a Ph.D student at Cambridge
University [said].